Project: | Siconos |
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Internal Release Number: | 1.0 |
Last update: | September 15, 2005 |
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SRS > Use case suite
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For the first version of the Siconos software, most of the users are scientists from various scientific fields : mathematicians, physicists, electrical and mechanical engineers, etc... Their computer skills are heterogeneous, but they have basic knowledges in computer science. Most of them already use scientific softwares like Matlab, Scilab or dedicated softwares for their own scientific fields (e.g. Lmgc90). Nevertheless, the platform have to be developed with well-known coding languages and interfaces.
One of the most important requirements in the distribution of the software is that it will be Open Source (see the definition at http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php). One goal is to bring together a wide community of scientists to use and to develop several new numerical methods. Therefore, standards development tools must be used.
Finally, for the users which come from the industry or the private company, the software must be compatible with standard softwares of scientific computing already used in the industry.
The documentation must contain :
The Documentation format requirements are:
After an analysis of Siconos
software
requirements, four priority software quality factors (Mc Call criteria)
have
been chosen. Each one has a mark of priority.
The data must be portable: